I often hear people talk about the decions they make and whether, given the opportunity, they would do it differently. This is often shortened to just “regrets”. Presented with the question myself, my response is almost always a resounding no! Now, this may at first seem foolish, it would basically mean one of two things. [...]
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headphones for snowboarding
Sunday, November 13, 2011
I recently bought a snowboarding helmet to get home and realize that it has cutouts in the earmuffs for headphones. Lucky for me I had a pair of headphones laying around that would be a perfect fit. Below are some pictures of the the headphones before and after my minor modifications.
The tail of MongoDB
Sunday, June 12, 2011
I recently gave a talk at MongoNYC 2011 about using MongoDB as a messaging layer. The rationale behind doing something like this would be to maintain a log of all the messages passed between two clients. While there are many different IPC schemes available, I thought it would be interesting to build something simple on top of [...]
re-tipping the cab
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
After having a brief discussion with some friends about my views on tipping I have come to give the idea of tipping some more thought. The gist of the discussion led me to realize that I had been looking at tipping from a somewhat wrong point of view and as such want to just make [...]
tipping the cab
Monday, October 25, 2010
Recently (as it happens every once in a while) I decided to re-evaluate my views on tipping and see if I needed to add or remove anything from the “will tip” pool. Sure enough, after some [not so] deep thought I decided that tipping a cab driver for a ride is one of those things [...]
the internet, open 24/7
Sunday, April 25, 2010
So just when you thought webpages were available 24/7 (or at least not when under maintenance), along comes the government to prove you wrong! www.socialsecurity.gov/onlineservices/ Check out the left side. The “Field Office Locator” is only available during certain hours. Note, this isn’t even a chat feature or anything like that… its a simple lookup [...]
new kdm theme
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
For the longest time I found the default Kubuntu KDM theme … well… not very pretty. Besides having lots of “dead” space I felt that it didn’t work well at all with the default splash screen. The transition from one to the other was not very clean. It didn’t help that for Karmic the wallpaper/ksplash [...]
live assistant for ubuntu
Monday, November 30, 2009
Live assistant is an idea that I proposed at Ubuntu Developer Summit Lucid. The basic premise is to provide new Ubuntu users the same “live chat” experience that many large websites are starting to offer.
schedule creator – spring 2010
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Spring 2010 schedule is now available. Head over to http://schedule.shtylman.com/ to begin setting up your course schedule. As always, if you notice any error in the information please let me know. Enjoy
hotels and hiking
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
hotels This past Sunday I was wandering around town taking in the sights and doing some shopping. I happen to stumble over to the South Street Seaport. Now, the South Street Seaport is in itself an ok place to go and mostly visited by tourists; but it does have some cool shops. Luckily for me, [...]